[Carrie]

Addendum: Actually I'm sure Greenie can handle himself. He and I have bumped heads more than once :P

I went over to AVS Lounge and read that thread. I can understand the anger, but seriously, most of the folks that didn't make the grade were the ones who did the "make a 30-pic site and submit it to every AVS in existence" plan... LLW. (Link List Whores)
They weren't making sales themselves, they were relying on the LL's traffic to do upsells for them.

The folks who got kept were the ones who made an effort to make unique sites and sell passes to AC - which was the whole point to begin with. The upsells were just gravy.

Had the webmasters that got cut focused on quality rather than quantity, they probably would've been one of the 350 webmasters that would've been spared. All programs go through their lists from time to time and cut webmasters that aren't profitable or sending traffic. This was no different.

And either way, the gripe here should be with AC, not GreenGuy. He sells a hell of a lot of passes for AC and he deserved to be offered Tier 1 status. He's worked hard to get where he is and to go around trashing his name simply because he took a good opportunity is plain... well, Nick said it best... sour grapes.